Call for Abstracts: The deadline has been extended to February 26th, 2018!!​Prizes will be awarded to the best oral and poster presentations

Abstracts that are incomplete (see “abstract guidelines below”) or submitted past the deadline will not be considered. All abstracts must be submitted through the online form in order to be considered; abstracts submitted via email will not be accepted.

Abstract guidelines:

In order to be accepted, abstracts must be no longer than 250 words (or 2000 characters), show clear connection to any area of academic study related to the environment or natural resources, and include the following information:

Purpose/Rationale: What is the major reason for performing this study?

Objectives: Clearly outline the objectives of the study

Methods: What methods will be/were used to collect the data for this study? What statistical analyses will be/were used?

Results: Briefly summarize the findings of the study. If you do not have results yet, please state your hypotheses of the results you expect to find.

Conclusion: What is the significance and importance of your findings/proposed study? How will it contribute to your field?

Note: When using abbreviations or acronyms, please spell them out first.

Presentation Styles:

We will try to offer all participants their first choice of presentation style; however, the number of 15-minute and 5-minute talks is limited. Priority for these talks will be given to participants presenting results. If your abstract is accepted but cannot be accommodated as one of the contributed talks, your second or third preference will be offered.

15-Minute Talks:

Talks are scheduled for 12 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions (total of 15 minutes). Talks will be scheduled for one of two sessions in the morning of Saturday or Sunday.

Talk sessions will be grouped based on a unifying theme if possible. Similar talks will be determined from the “keywords” participants outline in the online form.

For each presentation, the number of slides and amount of time spent per slide is up to the presenter’s discretion; however, the 12-minute time limit will be strictly enforced. The session leader will warn each speaker when they are approaching their time limit.

Priority for 15-minute talks will be given to participants presenting results.

Lightning (5-Minute) Talks:

Lighting talks are scheduled for 3 minutes plus 2 minutes for questions (total of 5 minutes). Talks will be scheduled for Saturday and Sunday morning.

For each presentation, slides must be automated; however the presenter has the discretion to decide how many slides they want to present and the amount of time they want to spend on each slide. The total presentation must be no more than 3 minutes in length.

Contributed Poster:

Posters are scheduled for a two-hour session on Saturday evening.

Presenters will be split into two groups (A and B). Group A must stand at their posters for the first hour of the session. Group B must stand at their posters for the second hour of the session.